Meaning not yet researched.
Semaj: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 217 in 2025. Its best rank was #627 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #627 in 2011; #1,027 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Semaj in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,027 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #627.
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Semaj: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 217 boys in 2025. Peak: #627 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 374 (2011).
In 2025, 217 US boys were named Semaj, making it the 1,027th most common boys’ name of the year, up 39 places from #1,066 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 205 boys named Semaj in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #627, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 374. For comparison, it was #1,015 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Semaj, making it the 6,515th most common girls’ name of the year, down 152 places from #6,363 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 19 girls named Semaj in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,685, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 133. For comparison, it was #2,995 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Semaj in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 9,459 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,620 babies named Semaj.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,932 US boys were named Semaj; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,871 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Semaj ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #365 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Semaje, Semahj and Zemaj are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Semaje (168), Semahj (6), Zemaj (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Semaj in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 9 | #365 | — |
| Georgia | 26 | #439 | #568 |
| Michigan | 15 | #566 | #1,069 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #586 | #697 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #712 | #554 |
| Florida | 20 | #775 | #797 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #858 | #580 |
| Alabama | 5 | #862 | #475 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #901 | #583 |
| Ohio | 9 | #928 | #1,188 |
| Texas | 25 | #972 | #1,519 |
| Missouri | 5 | #976 | #934 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,160 | #834 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,163 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,543 | #1,596 |
| California | 5 | #2,752 | #2,012 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,515 | 217 | #1,027 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,363 | 205 | #1,066 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,726 | 257 | #908 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,820 | 159 | #1,241 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,004 | 171 | #1,163 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,983 | 169 | #1,152 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,778 | 185 | #1,084 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,730 | 183 | #1,085 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,832 | 195 | #1,035 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,050 | 191 | #1,041 |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,995 | 201 | #1,015 |
| 2014 | 57 | #3,000 | 221 | #956 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,897 | 251 | #854 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,092 | 295 | #771 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,056 | 374 | #627 |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,816 | 354 | #675 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,685 | 362 | #672 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,946 | 338 | #698 |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,876 | 310 | #735 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,047 | 319 | #696 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,964 | 293 | #702 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,258 | 254 | #738 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,143 | 230 | #768 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,407 | 230 | #755 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,433 | 248 | #712 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,770 | 142 | #1,033 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,494 | 156 | #939 |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,006 | 122 | #1,075 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,105 | 87 | #1,320 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,555 | 103 | #1,154 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,759 | 77 | #1,348 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,984 | 66 | #1,468 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,359 | 73 | #1,339 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,223 | 52 | #1,676 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,351 | 40 | #1,947 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,091 | 59 | #1,483 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,486 | 45 | #1,731 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,474 | 16 | #3,323 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,833 | 13 | #3,692 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,600 | 17 | #2,987 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,004 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,437 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,908 | 16 | #2,954 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,102 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,224 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,139 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,808 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,916 | 8 | #4,507 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,929 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,624 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,900 | 12 | #3,092 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,912 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,534 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).